I agree. We should also consider cutting residential electricity and plumbing, since that extra water could be used to cool down all the extra power allocated to data centers.

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conductr 35 minutes ago | parent [-]

As a fan of analogies, this one is horrible. The magnitude of impact is so different. The impact of the GitHub change would be a mild and fleeting annoyance for those impacted. They just have to prompt a refactor, simple with LLM. It effects the biggest leeches in the GitHub ecosystem, so it’s targeted. The public utility impacts everyone and has no simple alternative or adjustment, people are stuck to suffer through it.

	▲	za_creature 15 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's not an analogy. I use github actions. Many open source projects use github actions since it's _there_. In exchange, github gains conversions since users of their free tier grow accustomed with the service and recommend it for corporate use as well. This system worked pre-LLM and turned github into the de facto _hub_ for software development. It was so good that microsoft, a company previously known for its "developers, developers, developers" stance decided to spend a cool bill on it. The proposed suggestion is that we all must make sacrifices for the machine god: Developers shouldn't write code, only correct the machine when it's wrong, mathematicians must read the slop and derive new science from it and regular people must refrain from talking dirty to it so then why the fuck not give it our water and power too?